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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. Easily.

  Reducto or any of a dozen other spells that make shit explode, magical barriers, simply transfiguring the weapons to something else… telekinesis. Simply not being there.

  And before you add “what if they were surprised…” …. It’s possible, but remember how shocked Hagrid was about the lie the Dursley’s told Potter? “A car crash?! A Car CRASH?! Kill lily and James potter?!….”

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  • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know. I’ve always thought a sniper could have taken out Voldemort. Far away, camouflaged, and the bullet gets there faster than the sound. It’s a reaction time thing.

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    • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Obviously, JK Rowling was not a tactical mastermind.

      However in the universe she created, any powerful wizard worth a damn would simply keep protective shields up all the time, especially against such simple things like “fast objects hitting them”.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would expect Voldemort to have protective spells keeping things like that from happening.

      If it were that easy to kill a witch or wizzard… then there’s lots of ways to go about that. He wouldn’t have needed a special wand to fight Harry. he’d just fling a ginormous rock out of nowhere.

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      • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, we know that wizards are vulnerable to physical attack and to surprise attacks. There’s the whomping willow, which they can’t just cast a force field against. There were the spiders and the centaurs in the forest. The big three headed dog. That devil’s something plant. And if I recall, Voldemort didn’t realize the caretaker had come into the house until he was in the hallway and Nagini saw him. Sorry, it’s been a hot minute since I read those.

        Wizards, one would think, could go flinging cars around whenever they wanted to, but they use death spells, even on muggles. Maybe they think it’s gauche to do something so mundane as dropping a rock on someone’s head, I couldn’t say. Jedi use the Force to throw things, but not to just crush someone’s head or rip it from their body. That would take a lot less force (so to speak) than lifting an X-wing, but they still use lightsabers.

        And for what it’s worth, I think a sniper could take out a Jedi, too.

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    • nintendiator@feddit.cl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure but anyone can win any fight if they have position and prep time that the other party doesn’t: under the same logic Voldy can easily kill any sniper so long as he knows there’s one (and in a war, there is one). Reminder, at least in the movies he doesn’t actually need to aim for Crucio, and he can manually and literally laser crush a castle-wide energy barrier .

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    • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reaction time isn’t really relevant when you are good at divination and ultra sensory perception.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He came from muggle land, so he is probably aware of guns. He could probably easily made his skin bullet proof with some spell. It’s not like wizards can’t invent new spells and magic. They just almost always seem to choose not to. I think the vast majority of wizards are lazy hacks.

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  • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok but you’d have to have pretty fast reaction times to transfigure a bullet just sayin

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      pretty fast reaction time to not die in a car crash, too. and your forgetting the part about wards and protection spells just stopping things cold.

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